SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, Oct. 9 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The judicial bodies of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands registered in the second quarter of 2023 the highest rate in the country of demands for marital dissolution per 100,000 inhabitants, as has happened uninterruptedly since December 2019, as confirmed by the data collected by the statistics service of the General Council of the Judiciary.
According to the report released today, Monday, between April and June 2023, the civil courts of the Archipelago computed a total of 1,402 demands for separations, divorces or marriage annulments, 4% less than in the same period of 2022 (1,461).
However, the data implies a rate of 63.4 marriage breakdowns per 100,000 inhabitants, the highest in Spain in the reference period.
The second was that of the Balearic community (59.9), and the third, that of Valencia (57.5). The national average was 50.8 marital breakdowns per 100,000 inhabitants, that is, 12.6 points below the Canary Islands average. The community with the lowest rate was the Principality of Asturias (36.4).
NATIONAL DATA
Regarding the state level, the total number of demands for marital dissolutions has remained at very similar figures to those of the same quarter of the previous year, having increased by just 0.1 percent.
In the period analyzed, only the demands for non-consensual separations, which were 249, presented a significant decrease, of 17.3 percent, compared to the months of April, May and June 2022. Consensual separations, 665, increased by 3.4 percent; non-consensual divorces, which totaled 9,269, increased by 1.7 percent; and divorces by mutual agreement, which totaled 14,208, decreased by 0.7 percent.
The number of annulment claims in the second quarter of 2023 was 13, which represented a decrease of 13.3% compared to those filed a year earlier.
RATE BY AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY
Relating the total marital dissolution demands for the year to the population as of January 1, 2023, it is confirmed that the highest number of dissolution demands per 100,000 inhabitants occurred in the Canary Islands, with 63.4. They were followed by the Balearic Islands, with 59.9; the Valencian Community, with 57.5; Galicia, with 56.2; Catalonia, with 54.2; Aragon, with 53.9; La Rioja, with 53.4; Castilla-La Mancha, with 52.9; and Navarra, with 51.3, territories in which in all cases the national average, which was 50.8, was exceeded.
On the contrary, the lowest rates were in Asturias, with 36.4; Cantabria, with 41.8; Castilla y León, with 42.5, and the Basque Country, with 43.8.
The consensual demands, which were 6,202, increased by 4.8% compared to those registered in the second quarter of 2022 and the non-consensual ones, in total 7,151, increased by 5.9 percent. The modifications of consensual measures, 3,332, decreased by 1.9% while those that were not consensual, which totaled 8,271, decreased by 2.7 percent.
